Book-Men, Book Clubs, and the Romantic Literary Sphere

ISBN-13: 9781137367594 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 192 str.

Ina Ferris

Opis

A new perspective on the disjunction between book culture and literary culture in the early nineteenth century that shaped the contours of the modern literary sphere.

Recenzje

"Book-Men, Book Clubs, and the Romantic Literary Sphere sheds valuable light upon the depth and nature of this impact, greatly illuminating the world of the Romantic bookman: his texts, activities, and communities." (Daniel Norman, Notes and Queries, Vol. 66 (1), March, 2019)

"Ina Ferris's Book-Men, Book Clubs and the Romantic Literary Sphere offers original contributions to this growing area of research. ... Book-Men, Book Clubs, and the Romantic Literary Sphere draws on impressively diverse printed and archival sources to support its lucid arguments. Ferris analyses a variety of lesser-known works written by, or about, book-men and book clubs. ... Beyond Romantic scholars, Ferris's research will also interest Victorianists." (Lindsey Eckert, Review of English Studies, Vol. 67 (281), September, 2016)

"Ferris' work represents an important development in our understanding of reading culture beyond the high-minded criticism of the Edinburgh journals. ... Bringing the bookman to the fore of our understanding of book culture, Ferris' work, I am sure, will offer an engaging point of departure for future studies of reading culture during the Romantic period." (James M. Morris, The BARS Review, Issue 48, Autumn, 2016)

Spis treści

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Bookish Outliers
PART I: URBAN ASSOCIATIONS
1. Unmooring the Literary Word
2. Typographical Consciousness and the Dissolution of Authorship
3. Printing Clubs and the Question of the Archive
PART II: BEYOND THE METROPOLIS
4. On the Borders of the Reading Public
5. A Provincial Itinerary: Reading the Journals of John Marsh
Notes
Bibliography
Index

O autorze

Ina Ferris is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her books include The Achievement of Literary Authority: Gender, History and the Waverley Novels, The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland, and Bookish Histories: Books, Literature, and Commercial Modernity, 1700-1900 (co-edited with Paul Keen).